Original scientific paper

Calculation and Visualization of Flexion and Skewness

Krisztián Kerkovits orcid.org/0000-0001-7960-5579 ; Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Abstract

A recent study on map projections expanded two new measures of distortion, namely flexion and skewness. However, it introduced them only for the unit sphere. The present paper derives formulas for the rotational ellipsoid and demonstrates that these kinds of distortion always have a unit of measurement. A new method of illustration is described, by which these quantities can be visualized in an expressive way.

Keywords

map projections; distortion; flexion and skewness; visualization

Hrčak ID:

203272

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/203272

Publication date:

30.6.2018.

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